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2022, Academia Letters
Modern Western temporality is often characterized (quoting Walter Benjamin) as " homogeneous, empty time. " This temporality is said (in the influential works of Johannes Fabian and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, for example) to result from a process by which sacred Judeo-Christian time was secularized: beginning in the Renaissance and finally achieved by the Enlightenment. Taking Fabian and Trouillot as a point of departure, this essay considers the past five centuries of Western chronological history. Temporal secularization is revealed to be far less linear (and much more recent) than Occidentalist common sense would assume. Given the actual strangeness of the " Common Era " Gregorian calendar—according to whose rhythms much of the world now structures its life—two models are proposed for dealing with that calendar's complex legacies. Following Nietzsche, we can productively take a hammer to the idol of Western chronology: not to smash it, but to make it ring.
Review of Gallois, Time, Religion & History, praising its contribution to historical studies but challenging the author's total relativism. While different cultures have different attitudes to time, there is also a shared universal in the form of the Space-Time (or Time-Space in my preferred variant) in which all history unfolds.
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Prehistory in the school textbooks and museums
Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism. London: Bloomsbury Academic
Introduction: Rethinking Historical Time2019 •
In his "Archaeology of the Human Sciences" (1969), Michel Foucault compared the history of knowledge with a powerful geological process: it happens sometimes that deeply buried plates of commonly acknowledged ideas and concepts, covered since ages by a continuous accumulation of sediments – made of successive interpretations – suddenly break down under the huge pressure of events and come to the surface, making the world shaking. Is that what is happening now? Like seismographs, most of the various fields of human and social sciences – and specially those dealing with the past – are recording the lift of new objects of enquiry, that are appearing under the thrust of a new force, previously hidden and unnoticed, that of the present. The French historian François Hartog has first given a name to this conceptual earthquake: presentism (2003, and, for an English translation, 2014). But where are we now? It has become obvious that the Hartogian notion of presentism is actually insufficient to grasp this new reality dominated by the present – since it is not anymore a specific question addressed to history and the historians. It is urgent to draw the state of the fields that have been actually contaminated, or affected, by the spread of the present, but more importantly, it is urgent to assess what is at stake under this compelling transformation. The conventional frontiers which used to separate the disciplines from the others are gradually falling down. But this is not just some sort of new academic debate: presentism – whatever the name we stamp this phenomenon with – is a symptom revealing the ideology of our present time, in other words, its new ontological situation.
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The idea of ``Jewish'' time highlights many problems related to the conflict between Judaism and Christianity. This paper focuses on two points: the reckoning of the Jewish era and the interpretation of the notion of time in the Bible. Jewish time pulsates to a rhythm of temporal markers which also divide it into secular and religious time. This division, however, this dual register of temporality, also enables Jews to alternate a ``Jewish'' register with a ``universal'' one. Traditional Jewish sources indicate that the principle of determining the date by calculating from the creation of the world (anno mundi) appeared during the period of the Second Temple. The question of elapsed time, deduced from different readings of the Biblical text, launched Jews and Christians on parallel lines of time. The history of the genesis of the notion of time asserts that the circular representation of temporality, sometimes called indigenous to ancient societies, was replaced by a representation that was vertical, then linear. These stages served as a scale for measuring the progress and evolution of societies. The Christian notion was supposed to characterize European time as an ``infinite line'' along which events are placed, in contrast to Israelite time, identifiable through its contents, and in which time is ``full'' and concrete, with no room for (re)ordering or arranging its episodes.
History and Theory
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Research Discourse
Periodizing Time: The Concept of Time in History2018 •
Time is the most important factor of history because it gives identity to it by differentiating it from present and future. So far nobody could have defined 'time' but each one from living to non-living has felt it directly from their beginning to end. It is surprising to note that, time which is the core of any historical work, historians have shown very little attention towards it. It is the literary scholars who have seized upon the subject of time before the historians. One reason for this may be because both modernism and postmodernism had more impact on literature than on history. But historians tend to assume the existence of "modernity", indeed posit it as a fundamental dividing line in historical studies and in most occasions, they describe it in their work rather than investigating it as a temporal category. What historians failed to attest is that, it is the western notion of the time imposed on the non-western world with an idea of the dichotomy of the backward and progressive world. Every culture was having (perhaps still having) a notion of time which can be evidenced by their historical accounts. So it is necessary to reinvestigate into the notion of time to understand 'the history' in its temporality rather than comparing it with the western time frame.
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